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I first heard of Ed Deevey in 1950, when I was a beginning Ph.D. student at Yale. I came from a three-person biology department whose minuscule library did not include the American Journal of Science, in which Ed had published his most important work. I had, however, been poking around the lakes and bogs of Nova Scotia for five years and was full of half-formed ideas about paleolimnology, climatic change, and the relevance of past climate to the modern distribution of plants and animals. I was chagrined to find a man I had never heard of, an American at that, who’d had all the same ideas ten years before, formulated them more clearly and carried out the work with an ingenuity and completeness beyond my aspirations. For a few weeks I was afraid to read another Deevey paper, and when the man himself returned from Yucatan I became his first graduate student.
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1939 Deevey, E. S. (Discussion) Arctic-Alpine limno- logy. Am. J. Sci. 237: 830–833.
1939 Deevey, E. S. Studies on Connecticut lake sediments, I. A postglacial climatic chronology for southern New England. Am. J. Sci. 237: 691–724.
1939 Hutchinson, G. E., E. S. Deevey & A. Wollack. The oxidation-reduction potentials of lake waters and their ecological significance. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 25: 87–90.
1940 Deevey, E. S. Limnological studies in Connecticut, V. A contribution to regional limnology. Am. J. Sci. 238: 717–741.
1941 Deevey, E. S. Notes on the encystment of the harpacticoid copepod Canthocamptus staphyli-noides Pearse. Ecology 22: 197–200.
1941 Deevey, E. S. Limnological studies in Connecticut, VI. The quantity and composition of the bottom fauna of thirty-six Connecticut and New York lakes. Ecol. Mon. 11:413–455.
1942 Deevey, E. S. & J. S. Bishop. Limnology. pp. 69–121, 296–298, in: A fishery survey of important Connecticut lakes, Lyle M. Thorpe, ed., Conn. Geol. and Nat. Hist. Surv. Bull., 63.
1942 Deevey, E. S. Studies on Connecticut lake sediments, III. The biostratonomy of Linsley Pond. Am. J. Sci. 240: 233–264, 313–338.
1942 Deevey, E. S. A re-examination of Thoreau’s ‘Waiden’. Quat. Rev. Biol. 17: 1–11.
1942 Deevey, E. S. Some geographic aspects of limnology. Sci. Month. 55: 423–434.
1943 Deevey, E. S. Additional pollen analyses from southern New England. Am. J. Sci. 241: 717–752.
1943 Deevey, E. S. & J. L. Brooks. Craspedacusta in open water, Lake Quassapaug, Connecticut. Ecology, 24: 266–267.
1944 Deevey, E. S. Pollen analysis and history. Am. Sci. 32: 39–53.
1944 Deevey, E. S. Pollen analysis and Mexican archaeology: an attempt to apply the method. Am. Antiq. 10: 134–149. (Also published as: Intento para datar las Cultures Médias del Valle de Mexico mediante analysis de polen. Ciencia 4: 97–105, 1943).
1945 Deevey, G. B. & E. S. Deevey. A life table for the black widow. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts and Sci., 36: 115–134.
1946 Deevey, E. S. (Discussion) An absolute pollen chronology in Switzerland. Am. J. Sci 244: 442–447.
1946 Deevey, E. S. Scientific Intelligence, Geology. A review of Zeuner, Frederick E., The Pleistocene Period, Its Climate, Chronology and Faunal Successions. Am. J. Sci. 244: 373–376.
1946 Deevey, E. S. Problems of the spring overturn in stratified lakes. J. N. Engl. Water Works Assoc. 60: 182–188.
1947 Deevey, E. S. Life tables for natural populations of animals. Quart. Rev. Biol. 22: 283–314. (Reprinted in: Readings in population and community ecology, W. E. Hazen, ed., Saunders, Philadelphia, 1964; 1970; 1975).
1948 Deevey, E. S. On the date of the last rise of sea level in southern New England, with remarks on the Grassy Island site. Am. J. Sci. 246:329–352.
1949 Deevey, E. S. Biogeography of the Pleistocene. Part I. Europe and North America. Bull. Geo. Soc. Am. 60: 1315–1416.
1949 Hutchinson, G. E. & E. S. Deevey. Ecological studies on populations, pp. 325–359, in: A survey of biological progress, G. S. Avery, ed., vol. 1, Academic Press, New York.
1949 Deevey, E. S. Living records of the Ice Age. Sci. Am. 180(5): 48–51.
1950 Deevey, E. S. The probability of death. Sci. Am. 182(4): 58–60
1950 Deevey, E. S. Hydroids from Louisiana and Texas, with remarks on the Pleistocene biogeography of the western Gulf of Mexico. Ecology 31: 334–367.
1950 Deevey, E. S. Ecology, the ice age, and the Gulf of Mexico. February 1950, Yale Sci. Mag. pp. 7–8; 18; 20.
1951 Deevey, E. S. Late-glacial and postglacial pollen diagrams from Maine. Am. J. Sci. 249:177–207.
1951 Deevey, E. S. & J. E. Potzger. Peat samples for radiocarbon analysis: problems in pollen statistics. Am. J. Sci. 249:473–511.
1951 Deevey, E. S. Recent textbooks of human ecology. Ecology 32: 347–51.
1951 Deevey, E. S. Life in the depths of the pond. Sci. Am. 185(4): 68–72.
1951 Flint, R. F. & E. S. Deevey. Radiocarbon dating of late-Pleistocene events. Am. J. Sci. 249: 257–300.
1951 Deevey, E. S. A brief discussion of the relation of some radiocarbon dates to the pollen chronology. In: Radiocarbon dating, Frederick Johnson, ed., Mem. Soc. Am. Archaeol. 8: 56–57.
1952 Deevey, E. S. Radiocarbon dating. Sci. Am. 186(2): 24–28.
1953 Deevey, E. S. Utilizzazione del radiocarbonio nella determinazione delie età geologiche. Riv. Sci. Preist. 6: 115–125.
1953 Blau, M., E. S. Deevey & M. S. Gross. Yale natural radiocarbon measurements, I. Pyramid Valley, New Zealand, and its problems. Science 118: 1–6.
1953 Deevey, E. S. Paleolimnology and climate. pp. 273–318, in: Climatic change, H. Shapley, ed., Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge.
1954 Deevey, E. S., M. S. Gross, G. E. Hutchinson & H. Kraybill. The natural C14 contents of materials from hard-water lakes. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 40: 285–288.
1954 Deevey, E. S. Hydroids of the Gulf of Mexico. In: The Gulf of Mexico, its origin, waters, and marine life, P. S. Galstoff, ed., U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv., Fishery Bull. Vol.55, 89: 267–272.
1954 Deevey, E. S. The end of the moas. Sci. Amer. 190(2): 84–90. (Repr. 1955, in: First Book of Animals, Simon & Schuster, xi, 240 pp.).
1955 Deevey, E. S. Some biogeographic implications of paleolimnology. Int. Assoc. Theoret. Appl. Limnol. Proc. 12: 654–659.
1955 Deevey, E. S. Limnological studies in Guatemala and El Salvador. Int. Assoc. Theoret. Appl. Limnol. Proc. 12: 278–283.
1955 Deevey, E. S. Paleolimnology of the upper swamp deposit, Pyramid Valley. Rec. Canterbury Mus. 6: 291–344.
1955 Deevey, E. S. The obliteration of the hypolimnion. Mem. Ist. Ital. Idrobiol. Suppl. 8: 9–38. (Colloque I.U.B.S., no. 19).
1955 Preston, R. S., E. Person & E. S. Deevey. Yale natural radiocarbon measurements, II. Science 122: 954–960.
1956 Deevey, E. S. The human crop. Sci. Am., 194(4): 105–112.
1956 Hutchinson, G. E., R. Patrick & E. S. Deevey. Sediments of Lake Patzcuaro, Michoacan, Mexico. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 67: 1491–1540.
1957 Deevey, E. S. & R. F. Flint. Postglacial hypsithermal interval. Science 125: 182–184.
1957 Barendsen, G. S., E. S. Deevey & L. J. Gralenski. Yale natural radiocarbon measurements, III. Science, 126: 908–919.
1957 Deevey, E. S. Limnologic studies in Middle America, with a chapter on Aztec limnology. Trans. Conn. Acad. Arts Sci. 39: 213–328.
1957 Deevey, E. S. Archeologie identification. Science, 126:412–413. (Reprinted as General Summary, in: The identification of non-artifactual archaeological materials, W. W. Taylor, ed., Nat. Acad. Sci. Nat. Res. Coun. Pub. 55).
1957 Deevey, E. S. Department of Amplification. The New Yorker, March 16, 1957, pp. 98–100.
1958 Deevey, E. S. Final report on radiocarbon dating. Office of Naval Research, Contract Nonr 609, 17 pp., processed.
1958 Deevey, E. S. Radiocarbon-dated pollen sequences in eastern North America. Veröffentl. Geobot. Inst. Rübel, Zürich 34: 30–37.
1958 Deevey, E. S. The equilibrium population. pp. 64–86, in: The population ahead, R. G. Francis, ed., Univ. of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
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1959 Deevey, E. S. The hare and the haruspex. Yale Review, 49: 161–179. (Reprintedin:Am.Sci.;in: Sierra Club Bull; in: Man alone, Dell, New York, 1963; and in: Human ecology, J. B. Bresler ed., Addison-Wesley, 1965).
1960 Oana, S. & E. S. Deevey. Carbon 13 in lake waters, and its possible bearing on paleo-limnology. Am. J. Sci., Bradley Vol., 258-A: 253–272.
1960 Stuiver, M., E. S. Deevey & L. J. Gralenski. Yale natural radiocarbon measurements, V. Am. J. Sci., Radiocarbon Suppl. 2: 49–61.
1960 Deevey, E. S. The human population. Sci. Am., 203(3): 194–204.
1961 Deevey, E. S. Recent advances in Pleistocene stratigraphy and biogeography. pp. 594–623, in: Vertebrate speciation, W. Frank Blair, ed., University of Texas Press, Austin.
1961 Stuiver, M. & E. S. Deevey. Yale natural radiocarbon measurements, VI. Radiocarbon 3: 126–140.
1962 Deevey, E. S. Animal populations, pp. 18–26, in: Frontiers of modern biology, G. B. Moment ed., Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
1962 Deevey, E. S. & N. Nakai. Fractionation of sulfur isotopes in lake waters, pp. 169–178, in: Biogeochemistry of sulfur isotopes, M. L. Jensen, ed., (Proc. NSF Symp., April 12–14, 1962.), Yale Univ. Dept. Geol, New Haven.
1962 Stuiver, M. & E. S. Deevey. Yale natural radiocarbon measurements, VII. Radiocarbon 4: 250–262.
1963 Brooks, J. L. & E. S. Deevey. New England. pp. 117–162, in: Limnology in North America, D. G. Frey, ed., Univ. Wisconsin Press, Madison.
1963 Deevey, E. S., N. Nakai & M. Stuiver. Fractionation of sulfur and carbon isotopes in a mesomictic lake. Science 139: 407–408.
1963 Stuiver, M., E. S. Deevey & I. Rouse. Yale natural radiocarbon measurements, VIII. Radiocarbon, 5: 312–341.
1963 Deevey, E. S., M. Stuiver & N. Nakai. Use of light nuclides in limnology, pp. 471–475, in: Radioecology, V. Schultz & A. W. Klement, Jr. eds., Reinhold, New York and AIBS, Washington.
1963 Deevey, E. S. General and urban ecology. pp. 20–32, in: The urban condition, L. J. Duhl, ed., Basic Books, New York.
1964 Deevey, E. S. Preliminary account of fossilization of Zooplankton in Rogers Lake. Int. Assoc. Theor. Appl. Limnol. Proc. XV: 981–992.
1964 Deevey, E. S., M. Stuiver & N. Nakai. Isotopes of carbon and sulfur as tracers of lake metabolism. Int. Assoc. Theor. Appl. Limnol. Proc. XV: 284–288.
1964 Deevey, E. S. General and historical ecology. BioScience, 14(7): 33–35.
1964 Deevey, E. S. & M. Stuiver. Distribution of natural isotopes of carbon in Linsley Pond and other New England lakes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 9:1–11.
1964 Davis, M. B. & E. S. Deevey. Pollen accumulation rates: estimates from late-glacial sediment of Rogers Lake. Science 145: 1293–1295.
1965 Deevey, E. S. Sampling lake sediments by use of the Livingstone sampler, pp. 521–529, in: Handbook of paleontological techniques, B. Kummel & D. Raup, eds., Freeman, San Francisco.
1965 Deevey, E. S. Pleistocene nonmarine environments. pp. 643–952, in: The Quaternary of the United States, H. E. Wright & D. G. Frey, eds., Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, N.J.
1967 Deevey, E. S. The reply: Letter from Birnam Wood. Yale Review 56: 631–640.
1967 Tsukada, M. & E. S. Deevey. Pollen analyses from four lakes in the southern Maya area of Guatemala and El Salvador, pp. 303–311, in: Quaternary paleoecology, E. Cushing & H. E. Wright, eds., Yale Univ. Press, New Haven.
1967 Deevey, E. S. Introduction, pp. 63–72, in: Pleistocene extinctions: The Search for a cause, P. S. Martin & H. E. Wright, eds., Yale Univ. Press, New Haven.
1969 Deevey, E. S. Review of Margalef, R., Perspectives in ecological theory. Limnol. Oceanogr. 14: 313–315.
1969 Deevey, E. S. Cladoceran populations of Rogers Lake, Connecticut, during late and postglacial time. Mitt. Int. Ver. Limnol. 17: 56–63.
1969 Deevey, E. S. Coaxing history to conduct experiments. BioScience, 19(1): 40–43.
1969 Deevey, E. S. Specific diversity in fossil assemblages. pp. 224–241, in: Diversity and stability in ecological systems, Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Brookhaven Symp. Biol., no. 22.
1970 Deevey, E. S. In defense of mud. Bull. Ecol. Soc. Am. 51:5–8.
1970 Deevey, E. S. Mineral cycles. Sci. Am. 223(3): 148–158.
1971 Deevey, E. S. The quality of environment. pp. 421–423, in: Topics in the study of life: the Bio source book, Amy Kramer, ed., Harper & Row, New York.
1971 Deevey, E. S. & G. B. Deevey. The American species of Eubosmina Seligo (Crustacea, Clado-cera). Limnol. Oceanogr. 16: 201–218.
1971 Deevey, E. S. Section 4, Biogeochemistry of lakes; Section 5, sediments and history of lakes. In: Program VIII, Freshwater lakes and their management, D. K. Todd ed., Univ. California Exten., Water Resour Engin. Educ. Series, 21 pp., processed.
1971 Deevey, E. S. The chemistry of wealth (presidential address). Ecol. Soc. Am., Bull. 52(4): 3–8.
1972 Deevey, E. S. Biogeochemistry of lakes: major substances. In: Nutrients and eutrophication, G. E. Likens, ed., Limnol. and Oceanogr., Spec. Symp., 1: 14–20.
1972 Deevey, E. S., ed. Growth by intussusception; ecological essays in honor of G. Evelyn Hutchinson. Conn. Acad. Arts. & Sci., Trans. 44: 1–443.
1973 Deevey, E. S. Sulfur, nitrogen, and carbon in the biosphere. In: Carbon and the biosphere, G. M. Woodwell & E. V. Pecan, eds., Brookhaven Nat. Lab., Brookhaven Symp. Biol. no. 24: 182–190.
1976 Deevey, E. S., ed. Air, water, and land: the global ecosystem. A Scientific American Offprint Reader (Introduction by E. S. Deevey, pp. 3–10), Freeman, San Francisco.
1976 Deevey, E. S., ed. Social Ecology. A Scientific American Reader (Introduction by E. S. Deevey), Freeman, San Francisco.
1976 Deevey, E. S. Time-worn highlands and coastal plain, pp. 202–233, in: Our continent: a natural history of North America, S. L. Fishbein, ed., Nat. Geo. Soc., Washington.
1977 Deevey, E. S., H. Vaughan & G. B. Deevey. Lakes Yaxha and Sacnab, Peten, Guatemala: plank-tonic fossils and sediment focusing. pp. 189–196, in: Interactions between sediments and fresh water, H. L. Golterman, ed., Junk, The Hague and PUDOC, Wageningen.
1978 Deevey, E. S. Holocene forests and Maya disturbance near Quexil Lake, Peten, Guatemala. Polsk. Arch. Hydrobiol. 25: 117–129.
1978 Deevey, E. S. & Mark Brenner. Sedimentary history of Spanish Pond. Appendix E, 10 pp., in: El Pantano de los Espanioles, L. D. Harris and others, eds., U.S. Nat. Park. Serv., Contract no. CX500041666, processed.
1979 Deevey, E. S, D.S. Rice, P.M. Rice, H.H. Vaughan, M. Brenner & M. S. Flannery. Mayan urbanism: impact on a tropical karst environment. Science, 206: 298–306.
1980 Deevey, E. S., G. B. Deevey & M. Brenner. Structure of Zooplankton communities in the Peten lake district, Guatemala, pp. 669–678, in: Evolution and ecology of Zooplankton communities, W. C. Kerfoot, ed., Univ. Press New England, Hanover, N.H.
1980 Deevey, E. S. & D. S. Rice. Coluviación y retención de nutrientes en el distrito lacustre del Petén Central, Guatemala. Biotica 5: 129–144.
1980 Deevey, E. S., Mark Brenner, M. S. Flannery & G. H. Yezdani. Lakes Yaxha and Sacnab, Peten, Guatemala: limnology and hydrology. Arch. Hydrobiol. Suppl., 57: 419–460.
1982 Deevey, E. S. Concluding remarks: Embryology continued by other means, pp. 485–489, in: Selected works of Gordon A. Riley, J. S. Wroblewski, ed., Dalhousie Univ., Halifax.
1983 Deevey, E. S., Mark Brenner & M. W. Binford. Paleolimnology of the Peten lake district, Guatemala, III. Late Pleistocene and Gamblian environments of the Maya area. Int. Symp. Paleolimnol., 3rd, Joensuu, Finland, 1981; Hydrobiologia, 103:211–216.
1983 Hitchcock, D. R. & E. S. Deevey. Coastal and inland natural H2S sources, pp. 162–171, in: Acid deposition, causes and effects: a state assessment model, A. E. S. Green & W. H. Smith, eds., Univ. Florida, Gainesville.
1983 Binford, M. W., E. S. Deevey & T. L. Crisman. Paleolimnology: An historical perspective on lacustrine ecosystems. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 14: 225–286.
1983 Rice, D. S., P. M. Rice & E. S. Deevey. El impacto de los Mayas en el ambiente tropical de la cuenca de los Lagos Yaxha y Sacnab, El Petén, Guatemala. Am. Indegena 43: 261–297.
1984 Deevey, E. S. Zero B. P. plus 34: 25 years of Radiocarbon. Radiocarbon 26: 1–6.
1984 Deevey, E. S. Stress, strain, and stability of lacustrine ecosystems, pp. 203–229, in: Lake sediments and environmental history, E. Haworth & J. W. G. Lund eds., Univ. Minnesota Press, Minneapolis.
1985 Vaughan, H. H, E. S. Deevey & S. E. Garrett-Jones. Pollen stratigraphy of two cores from the Peten lake district, with an appendix on two deep-water cores, pp. 73–89, in: Prehistoric lowland Maya environment and subsistence economy, M. Pohl, ed., Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge.
1985 Rice, D. S., P. M. Rice & E. S. Deevey. Paradise lost: Classic Maya impact on a lacustrine environment, pp. 91–105, in: Prehistoric lowland Maya environment and subsistence economy, M. Pohl ed., Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge.
1986 Deevey, E. S., M. W., Binford, M. Brenner & T. J. Whitmore. Sedimentary records of accelerated nutrient loading in Florida lakes. Hydrobiologia 143: 49–53.
1987 Binford, M. W., M. Brenner, T. J. Whitmore, A. Higuera-Gundy, E. S. Deevey & B. Leyden. Ecosystems, paleoecology and human disturbance in subtropical and tropical America. Quaternary Science Reviews, 6: 115–128.
1987 Coleman, J. M. & E. S. Deevey. Lacustrine sediment/groundwater nutrient dynamics. Biogeochemistry 4: 3–14.
1988 Deevey, E. S. Lake and bog sediments: hydrologic indications of short-term climatic oscillations. pp. 19–23, in: Paleoecology Workshop, convened 15–17 February 1988, Boston, Ma., G. Sharp & T. J. DeVries, Co-convenors. NOAA/NSF co-sponsors.
1988 Deevey, E. S. Estimation of downward leakage from Florida lakes. Limnol. Oceanogr. 33: 1308–1320.
in press Brenner M, M. W. Binford & E. S. Deevey. Lakes. in: Ecosystems of Florida, J. J. Ewel & R. L. Myers eds., U. Central Fla. Press, Univ. Presses of Florida.
submitted Deevey, E. S., M. Brenner, A. M. Moore, M. W. Binford, K. T. Dorsey, X. Song & Z. Hu. Paleolimnology and limnology of Qilu Hu, Tonghai County, Yunnan. Journal of Yunnan University.
submitted Moore, A. M., M. Brenner, M. W. Binford, E. S. Deevey & X. Ou. Field notes on a paleo-limnological expedition to five lakes on the Yunnan plateau. Journal of Yunnan University.
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Smith, J.P. et al. (1991). Edward Smith Deevey 1914–1988. In: Smith, J.P., et al. Environmental History and Palaeolimnology. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 67. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3592-4_1
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